{"id":5283,"date":"2020-07-09T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2020-07-07T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T21:31:26","slug":"business-run-your-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/business-run-your-rules","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Business Run By Your Rules OR Somebody Else\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found yourself answering the question about why you\u2019re doing something with \u201c<strong>because THEY told me to?<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s They?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar playerhost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/2020ezinevideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/secure\/\" : \"http:\/\/2020ezinevideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/player\/\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + playerhost + \"flv\/AF617E84-057C-DBB2-8886EC2D1980B1E5.js?t=\"+(Math.random() * 99999999)+\"' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>When you do things because everyone else is doing it or because you saw it on somebody else\u2019s social media feed, <strong>take heed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you the leader in your business<\/strong> or are you following?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, there are great lessons in modeling certain aspects of other successful businesses\u2026 <strong>as long as you know why you\u2019re doing it and do it with purpose and strategy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOT<\/strong> by just blindly doing things, following somebody else\u2019s advice, or doing something because it\u2019s popular at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this happen this week. The same post on about 40 friends\u2019 walls \u2013 just because they saw it somewhere else. No thought was given to it.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be a sheep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be the leader of the pack<\/strong>\u2026 and certainly be the leader in your own life and business.<\/p>\n<p>To Your Success \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Diane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found yourself answering the question about why you\u2019re doing something with \u201cbecause THEY told me to?\u201d Who\u2019s They? When you do things because everyone else is doing it or because you saw it on somebody else\u2019s social media feed, take heed. Are you the leader in your business or are you following?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/business-run-your-rules\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":5285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,32],"tags":[29,365,148,709,13,10,30,396,708,45],"class_list":["post-5283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-strategy","category-articles-marketing","tag-business","tag-business-growth","tag-business-owner","tag-business-strategy","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-entrepreneur","tag-leadership","tag-articles-marketing","tag-strategy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5284,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/5284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}